Babylon Sisters and Other Posthumans

POSTHUMAN: SUPERHUMAN?

Paul Di Filippo is one of Science Fiction's finest short story writers, wild, witty, exuberantly imaginative; Babylon Sisters and Other Posthumans is a generous showcase of his strange, transformative, and powerful Hard SF visions.

The fourteen stories collected here are glimpses into the most fantastic possibilities of human evolution – biological, social, and cultural. From a New York split into warring walled enclaves, to the destiny of our species as a strain of virus, to an Africa made over by nanotech messiahs, to a future Earth protected by half-alien angels, to wars of liberation from what we have always so tragically been: these are only some of the awe-inspiring transitions to be found in Babylon Sisters. Read here of rebellion by books against their librarian, of cosmic destiny remade by stellar lunatics, of disorienting ventures beyond the boundaries of the human; discover here the perverse and terrible dangers of the age of posthumanity.

Contents:

• Stone Lives
• A Short Course in Art Appreciation
• Phylogenesis
• A Thief in Basbylon
• Solitons
• Gravitons
• Any Major Dude
• Mud Puppy Goes Uptown
• Otto and Toto in the Oort
• Life Sentence
• Angelmakers
• The Relucant Book
• Babylon Sisters
• The Scab's Progress (with Bruce Sterling)